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We present a theoretical model of the near-surface shear layer (NSSL) of the Sun. Convection cells deeper down are affected by the Sun's rotation, but this is not the case in a layer just below the solar surface due to the smallness of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Arnab Rai Choudhuri , Bibhuti Kumar Jha

We present a high-resolution, highly stratified numerical simulation of rotating thermal convection in a spherical shell. Our aim is to study in detail the processes that can maintain a near surface shear layer (NSSL) as inferred from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Hotta , M. Rempel , T. Yokoyama

Understanding effects driven by rotation in the solar convection zone is essential for many problems related to solar activity, such as the formation of differential rotation, meridional circulation, and others. We analyze realistic 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Alan A. Wray , Viacheslav M. Sadykov , Gustavo Guerrero

We carry out an unprecedented high-resolution simulation for the solar convection zone. Our calculation reproduces the fast equator and near-surface shear layer (NSSL) of differential rotation and the near-surface poleward meridional flow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 H. Hotta

The differential rotation of the sun, as deduced from helioseismology, exhibits a prominent radial shear layer near the top of the convection zone wherein negative radial gradients of angular velocity are evident in the low- and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. L. DeRosa , P. A. Gilman , J. Toomre

The Sun has a Near-Surface Shear Layer (NSSL), within which the angular velocity decreases rapidly with radius. We provide an explanation of this layer based on the thermal wind balance equation. Since convective motions are not affected by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-25 Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Arnab Rai Choudhuri

The advent of helioseismology has determined in detail the average rotation rate of the Sun as a function of radius and latitude. These data immediately reveal two striking boundary layers of shear in the solar convection zone (CZ): a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Loren I. Matilsky , Bradley W. Hindman , Juri Toomre

The dynamical origins of the Sun's tachocline and near-surface shear layer (NSSL) are still not well understood. We have attempted to self-consistently reproduce a NSSL in numerical simulations of a solar-like convection zone by increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Loren I. Matilsky , Bradley W. Hindman , J. Toomre

I represent results three-dimensional numerical simulation of solar surface convection on scales local supergranulation with realistic model physics. I study thermal structure of convective motions in photosphere, the range of convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Ustyugov

The gradient of rotation in the near-surface shear layer (NSSL) of the Sun provides valuable insights into the dynamics associated with the solar activity cycle and the dynamo. Results obtained with global oscillation mode-splittings lack…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-04 M. Cristina Rabello Soares , Sarbani Basu , Richard Bogart

Context: We study the impact of two-dimensional spherical shells on compressible convection. Realistic profiles for density and temperature from a one-dimensional stellar evolution code are used to produce a model of a large stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 J. Pratt , I. Baraffe , T. Goffrey , C. Geroux , M. Viallet , D. Folini , T. Constantino , M. Popov , R. Walder

We use global and local helioseismic inversions to explore the prevailing dynamical balances in the solar Near-Surface Shear Layer (NSSL). The differential rotation and meridional circulation are intimately linked, with a common origin in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mark S. Miesch , Bradley W. Hindman

Large regions of giant planets are thought to possess unstable thermal gradients stabilised by gradients in heavy-element composition. The fluid can then develop semi-convection, a double-diffusive instability driven by the unequal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Paul Pružina , Nathanaël Schaeffer , David Cébron

We present a novel and powerful Compressible High-ORder Unstructured Spectral-difference (CHORUS) code for simulating thermal convection and related fluid dynamics in the interiors of stars and planets. The computational geometries are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junfeng Wang , Chunlei Liang , Mark S. Miesch

A major goal in solar physics has during the last five decades been to find how energy flux generated in the solar convection zone is transported and dissipated in the outer solar layers. Progress in this field has been slow and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Viggo H. Hansteen , Mats Carlsson , Boris Gudiksen

We discuss recent advances made in modelling the complex magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun using our anelastic spherical harmonics (ASH) code. We have conducted extensive 3--D simulations of compressible convection in rotating spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

A weakly magnetized neutron star (NS) undergoing disk accretion should release about a half of its power in a compact region known as the accretion boundary layer. Latitudinal spread of the accreted matter and efficient radiative cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-08 Aleksandr Rusakov , Pavel Abolmasov , Omer Bromberg

The ANTARES radiation hydrodynamics code is capable of simulating the solar granulation in detail unequaled by direct observation. We introduce a state-of-the-art numerical tool to the solar physics community and demonstrate its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 P. Leitner , B. Lemmerer , A. Hanslmeier , T. Zaqarashvili , A. Veronig , H. Grimm-Strele , H. J. Muthsam

The use of machine learning to represent subgrid-scale (SGS) dynamics is now well established in weather forecasting and climate modelling. Recent advances have demonstrated that SGS models trained via ``online'' end-to-end learning --…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-19 Hugo Frezat , Thomas Gastine , Alexandre Fournier

We adopted an unstructured hydrodynamical solver CharLES to the problem of global convection in the Sun. With the aim to investigate the properties of solar turbulent convection and reproduce differential rotation pattern. We performed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Chunlei Liang , Frank Ham
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